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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By : Johann Rehberger
Book Image

Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By: Johann Rehberger

Overview of this book

It's now more important than ever for organizations to be ready to detect and respond to security events and breaches. Preventive measures alone are not enough for dealing with adversaries. A well-rounded prevention, detection, and response program is required. This book will guide you through the stages of building a red team program, including strategies and homefield advantage opportunities to boost security. The book starts by guiding you through establishing, managing, and measuring a red team program, including effective ways for sharing results and findings to raise awareness. Gradually, you'll learn about progressive operations such as cryptocurrency mining, focused privacy testing, targeting telemetry, and even blue team tooling. Later, you'll discover knowledge graphs and how to build them, then become well-versed with basic to advanced techniques related to hunting for credentials, and learn to automate Microsoft Office and browsers to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to grips with protecting assets using decoys, auditing, and alerting with examples for major operating systems. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build, manage, and measure a red team program effectively and be well-versed with the fundamental operational techniques required to enhance your existing skills.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Embracing the Red
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Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Summary

In this chapter, we described a variety of ways to measure an offensive security program, and what maturity stages the program might go through. We highlighted strategies and techniques to develop a mature program by starting out with basic ways to track findings. This included the discussion of mandatory metadata that is required to build successful reports and provide appropriate insights to the organization and its leadership.

We explored a wide range of graphics and charts on how to visualize findings that can be leveraged during reporting and debriefs.

As the next step, we explored attack and knowledge graphs as ways to represent information such as assets and threats and to highlight paths that adversaries take through the network. Afterward, we went ahead and discussed a set of key metrics and objectives with practical examples, and explored how Monte Carlo simulations can provide a totally different way to analyze and discuss threats.

As an exercise, we explored...